Which text editor do you use?

[mothra]

I've been using Edit Plus for awhile. I figure I should buy it pretty soon. I prolly don't take advantage of 75% of its functions but it works for me. I like the multi-language color coding, without all the overhead of something like Visual Studio. I think the file browser is just ok, but it is useful.

So anyway which text editor do you like and why?

[qwertyuiop]

I use Notetab Light cause it's.........simple. I wish it colored the code though :rolleyes: . Notetab has many features, and I too probably don't use a big %age of them.

Notetab site: http://www.fookes.com/

[shlagish]

notepad usually, but I did create myself an editor..
Just a textarea but I put a button so I can see the result directly in a other frame :)
Just faster. No colouring at all, but I could add that, I just don't know how to do it.. Otherwise I think I would :)

[oracleguy]

I like Macromedia HomeSite, it is the one I use the most. Other than that, HTML-Kit is okay, but the UI isn't as good.

[dniwebdesign]

I use Notpad and Dreamweaver... Notepad was my main source until I got Dreamweaver and found it colour coded... not it's my friend... :D

[JohnnyPotseed]

I use a freeware program called 1st Page 2000. I hard code everything but really like the color coded syntax. It helps to cut down on the "bleeding eye syndrome " from searching out syntax errors and typos.Other than that I don't need a lot of bells and whistles in an HTML editor I also use Topsytle Pro for CSS editing. I like it for its style sweeper that organizes the entries and its direct link to the W3C validation services.

[joh6nn]

i use win32pad (http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/), which is essentially Notepad with line-numbers

[mothra]

Lots of different responses. I should take a look at HomeSite, I've heard lots of good stuff about it. I'm pretty sold on my current editor, I just thought I'd see what else is out there. I don't bother with WYSIWYG anymore, I have yet to see any that display positioned HTML correctly.

[ionsurge]

I personally use TopStyle Pro 3.10 by BradSoft. I only use that, have only used that for well over ten months.

I've tried pretty much everything else, DWMX (&2004), Ultra Edit, Text Pad, SciTE, Notepad, and Allaire Home Site 4, and Macromedia's release after they purchased Allaire, Home Site v5.

I've found nothing yet that I can say that I prefer over Top Style Pro, it is just in my opinion one of if not the best HTML/CSS non-wysiwyg editors out there. Superbly cheap also. By the way, the trial edition is a very cut down version, nothing like the full release.

[redhead]

EditPlus (http://www.editplus.com) is the best I have tried.

[gsnedders]

I use BBEdit Lite 6.1 for OS X, which is the last lite, free, version...
I like it becuase it is free and it is simple.

[lnxusr86]

Notepad... How about setting up a poll?

[Nightfire]

I use SciTE http://www.scintilla.org

A poll would be useless as there's thousands of editors out there. There wouldn't be enough options to cover them all. It's kinda like having a poll for what car you have

[gsnedders]

The 10 option limit caused a lot of problems in the What Operating System do you Use? thread, see link in my sig.

[mothra]

I got to say that the cross-browser style check in TopStyle looks pretty cool. Does it color code syntax for other languages such as php and javascript?

[Josh_]

I use the code view part of dreamweaver. Which I've heard is basically what homesite is.

[barnettgs]

I have tried trial of TopStyle Pro and am very impressed with it. It has preview on the bottom of screen to view. It has colour coded and predictive coding too which is just like HomeSite.

The same guy who created HomeSite, doing the same for TopStylePro so you can't go wrong there. ;)

http://www.coxsoft.com/web-authoring/top-style-pro.htm

[Lozza]

I'm a fan of emacs though I think EditPad Lite is a very good editor for windows.
As a general rule I don't touch 3rd party software.

[harbingerOTV]

I can say I've never used a WYSIWYG editor. I use Notepad. It maybe the hard way around things but when I first started learning, editing my own mistakes in Notepad made me more critical of my typos. Reading through long lines of code that I wrote was easier to find my problems than my bad typing in a WYSIWYG I would suppose.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

i like editors that have syntax highlighting, they are good when you are doing php, and javascript, but i use dreamweaver for the built in ftp, the syntax highlighting, builtin validator, and the target browser check feature

[Blind Zero]

Like most I like an editor that has highlighting, etc, etc. So I use Crimson Editor, it is an excellent little program that has a lot of features, some of which i am still not sure how to use...

http://www.crimsoneditor.com

[JamieR]

Overall syntax highlighting to me is very important, as it gives me the flexibility to go and find code errors a lot faster than working with code that has no colour coding.

[rpgfan3233]

I use Notepad for any programming I do, whether it's XML, XSLT, XHTML or even BASIC. :D